This is a new & warm feature that allows nesting partiitons in DT and
mixing their types (e.g. static vs. dynamic). It's very useful for
boards that have most partitions static but some of them require extra
parsing (e.g. a "firmware" partition).
It's required to successfully backport support for new devices using
that new syntax in their DT files.
Since brcm63xx has a custom alternative patch the upstream one is being
reverted for it. The plan is to make brcm63xx use the upstream
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
This backports upstream support for "compatible" DT property set for the
"partitions" subnode of flash node. It allows specifying how partitions
should be created/parsed. Right now only "fixed-partitions" is
supported.
It should eventually replace our downstream "linux,part-probe" solution.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
This adds initial support for kernel 4.14 based on the patches for
kernel 4.9.
In the configuration I deactivated some of the new possible security
features like:
CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
And these overlay FS options are also deactivated:
CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_INDEX
CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_REDIRECT_DIR
I activated this:
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE
CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT
CONFIG_WATCHDOG_HANDLE_BOOT_ENABLED
I am not sure if I did the porting correct for the following patches:
target/linux/generic/backport-4.14/020-backport_netfilter_rtcache.patch
target/linux/generic/hack-4.14/220-gc_sections.patch
target/linux/generic/hack-4.14/321-powerpc_crtsavres_prereq.patch
target/linux/generic/pending-4.14/305-mips_module_reloc.patch
target/linux/generic/pending-4.14/611-netfilter_match_bypass_default_table.patch
target/linux/generic/pending-4.14/680-NET-skip-GRO-for-foreign-MAC-addresses.patch
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Refresh patches.
Adapt 704-phy-no-genphy-soft-reset.patch.
Remove brcm2708/950-0005-mm-Remove-the-PFN-busy-warning.patch.
Compile-tested on brcm2708/bcm2708 and x86/64.
Runtime-tested on brcm2708/bcm2708 and x86/64.
Fixes the following vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2017-7533
- CVE-2017-1000111
- CVE-2017-1000112
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Except for renames and line changes the only conflict was in
allocate_partition in handling MTD_WRITEABLE. Hopefully it was handled
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
This mtd_roundup_to_eb helper was introduced years ago in the commit
daec7ad768 ("kernel/3.10: add separate rootfs partition parser") and
it was probably supposed to simplify code a bit.
With the recent upstream commit 1eeef2d7483a7 ("mtd: handle partitioning
on devices with 0 erasesize") the logic in allocate_partition got
slightly more complex and we can't use this simple helper anymore as it
doesn't support MTD_NO_ERASE properly.
There also isn't any real gain from this helper, so it's probably easier
to just don't use it *or* work on upstreaming it to avoid maintenance
cost.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
The "linux,part-probe" dts parsing is a pretty neat generic feature.
It has been posted to kernel.org and could easily be reused by all
targets.
This change moves the patch to the 3.18 and 4.1 generic folders, and
makes the feature available to all platforms who may want to use it.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Olivari <mathieu@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 46654
Since the kernel/rootfs split handling was modified 2 years ago by r37283 (
https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/37283 ) and by the subsequent checkins,
users have seen rather scary mtd errors in the log at every boot. The message
ends "-- forcing read-only", which looks a bit error-like. That error has
been mentioned in some forum threads, when users have noticed this message
instead of some actual error.
[ 2.940000] 0x000000070000-0x000000ff0000 : "firmware"
[ 2.970000] 2 netgear-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[ 2.970000] 0x000000070000-0x000000188440 : "kernel"
[ 2.980000] mtd: partition "kernel" must either start or end on erase
block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only
[ 2.990000] 0x000000188440-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs"
The patch removes the rather useless warning message.
signed-off-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
SVN-Revision: 45669
This fixes error erasing partial mtd partition which does not start on
eraseblock boundary and allows using fconfig to configure redboot on
devices such as the Gateworks Cambria.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Skrzypek <maciej.skrzypek@flytronic.pl>
SVN-Revision: 41733
The current code only allows to automatically set
root device on MTD partitions. Move the code to MTD
core to allow to use it with all MTD devices.
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 38643
- change patch numbers to group the related stuff together,
- add mtd prefix where it is missing,
- use hyphens in the patch names
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 37974
Rafał Miłecki